Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-14

| To sell few lots he was doing his best:
And his best was as good as any IN town.
| For agents must work or sellers Will weep,
And commissions are low, and it costs t.
A real estate Office running.
A real estate buyer wary and wise,
| Went with the agent to the seaside;
| He trusted no words, but trusted his eyes;
This buyer of land who was slow to decide
| For buyers must look and ponder and keel
| Their eyes wide open, though land be cheaI
In this country of booms and booming.
He saw Lencadia in all its glory
| OF vineyards and orchards aud sca-beach
grand,
And he said it is truel Not half of the story
las been told concerning this fairy land
| And he bought II bloek-bought it at once,
| For he said to buy not was the act of Ounce
When the land is so cheap and charming
South of the San Marcos river, or
the line of the California Southern
railroad, an hours ride from San Di
ego and less than four hours ride
from Los Angeles by the A. 7. q S. +
line now building, LEucADIA lies in
the lap OF Paradise. She is the fair
est OF all the fair daughters OF the sea
She is the Venus Anlphridite Of
Southern California. The beach al
Leu cadia is as hard rs asphalt and as
level as, IA ballroom floor, and the surf
is so light it would net upset baby.
Generally seaside soil is not prolific
agriculturally speaking-but the lana
at Leucadia is exceptionally fertile
,,I ha,,,t,f,,1 thn -I,S~ q
bluff overhanging the ocean it ascends
gently to the summit of the first
ridge, then it descends gently to a
valley, through which the railroad
runs, and then ascends to the summit
of the second ridge, where it descends
rapidly into a ravine running into the
San Marcos river. There are no ar
royos, no abrupt places, and no un-
even ground. Every part OF the tract
is visible from every other part. II
you wish to live directly upon the
ocean, the first terrace from the beach
affords lovely building sites. If you
wish ocean breeze and view, without
the sound OF the surf, the upper ter
races will give you these. ii you
wish valley, sheltered from the
ocean breezes and yet within three or
four hundred yards of the beach-all
this can be had at Leucadia. The soil
is simply wonderful. On the summit
or the second ridge is ten-acre grove
of Eucalyptus trees, two years old and
twenty feet high, grown without a
drop OF water. On the slopes OF the
ridge, bordering on the ocean, are or
chards of Adriatic figs, and fields OF
corn twelve feet high, and in the val
ley through which sthe railroad runs
there are vineyards of Muscat grapes,
three years old, in full bearing; apri.
cot trees loaded with fruit, and Young
orange trees, as lively and as lovely
and as self-reliant us if they were moi
growing within 800 yards OF the ocean
surf, within whose sound some agri
cultural liar has remarked that cor
anges will not grow" And all this
without one drop OF water excep
what has fallen from the clouds. The
worlmen are now sinking the first
well ever put down in Leucadia. with
the exception of we'll which was
sunk in the valley, and which was
SiNSh up pOSeetsC thC ON db tIlt
depth OF fifty feet, struck a vein O
mineral water. 1t is excellent fol
gout, rheumatism and kidney disease
AMI is mild cathartic, but the we'll
digger's garden did not have the gout
and his kidneys ranked AL, copper
bottomed and copper-fastened, an(
his mules did not need cathartic, SC
he gave up the well-and thus there
has never been any irrigation to hell
the wonderful vegetation of Leucadia
(We shall clear out the mineral wei
by and by and put house over it and
give the victims of dyspepsia show.
Well, this paradise is being made
ready for the market. We are some
thing more than commission agents il
the case of Leucadia-we are owners
of large block of the stock of tn,
Leucadia Company, and it is our hope
and our pride to hell make Leucadis
the banner seaside resort of the coast
Leucadia has been surveyed an(
mapped, the avenues, 260 feet apart
running parallel with the railroad anC
ocean beach, and streets at right an
| giles 400 feet apart. The avenues arr
named after Greek divinities and the
streets after ancient Greek personages
These Greeks are all thoroughly deaC
and lot buyers will take no chances OF
being obliged to change the names o
the streets whereon they live on ac
count OF subsequent misconduct of tht
people after whom the streets ar,
named. The streets have been Gu
out, and a railroad station has beer
built, and a road is now being. graded
down to the beach and bath houses
being erected, and siding and sta
ton is being constructed. And whel
we offer lots in Leucadia for sale, We
shall have something more to presen
to purchasers than "the substance O
things hoped for and the evidence O
things not SEEN"
The streets of Leucadia will be
planted with shade trees and waite
will be piped along its avenues, and
there will be "The Sappho," one O
the finest seaside hetels in California
to aid in the erection of which the
Leucadia Company will devote one
fifth of the proceeds of sales of al
lots. Arrangements will also be mad,
looking to a union church, and an op
era house, where the plays of Sopho
cles will be rendered, and possibly al
ampitheater, where there will be clas
steal games, ending with a grand com
bat between coyotes and anti-seasid,
snarlers, with the betting in favor O
the cayotes. You who are looking TO
homes, YOU who are looking for in
vestments, you who are looking for +.
safe and profitable speculation, wait
few weeks for Leucadia.
About October 10Th there will be al
auction upon the ground of two O
three hundred lots to fix prices. Afte1
that the even-numbered blocks will
be placed on sale in San Diego, ant
the odd-numbered blocks will b,
placed on sale at Los Angeles. Map
and descriptive pamphlets will b.
ready shortly at our office. You don
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